Sie Definition

verb

(intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.

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(intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.

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(intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.

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To sift.

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(dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.

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noun

A drop.

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pronoun

(neologism) Gender-neutral (multigendered) subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular they.

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Origin of Sie

  • From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to pass from a higher to a lower position, sink, descend, decline, fall, fall down, move towards a point, advance, go, go to, approach, ooze, run as matter, strain, filter, act as a filter”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seik- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).

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